A great read. Highly recommended for all my colleagues in Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and anyone else who’s interested in the history of women in diplomacy.

Sneak peek of tonight’s exhibition opening Institut français UK !

This is one of the original 1904 declarations which became known as the Entente cordiale. Beautifully handwritten and very moving : some words were even erased and rewritten, in all likelihood because the negotiations…

So sad to hear that Daniel Kahneman has died.

‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ should be required reading for every diplomat - diplomacy is all about knowing what makes people tick and how to influence their decision-making. Hard to think of many better guides. Also great fun to read.

“I have only grown with years more firmly fixed in the belief that there is nothing more fatuous in international affairs than to believe in the unquestioned superiority of one’s own people and the inferiority of others” (1935)

Esme Howard, UK Ambassador to the US 1924-30.

A view of the south lobby of the General Assembly building at #UNHQ in #NYC , picturing one of two murals, each measuring 34 by 46 feet, entitled 'War and Peace' by #Brazilian 🇧🇷 artist Candido Portinari. The murals were donated to the United Nations 🇺🇳 in 1957.

#UNArtTour #VisitUN

Looks like the last person to read my copy of Esme Howard’s memoirs used this 1936 receipt from a Mayfair ladies’ tailor as a bookmark.

Can anybody figure out what comes before Maxwell in the name or what they bought?

The East River waterfront before the United Nations was built.

Opportunity for experienced academics to join the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office as a Senior Research Fellow on geopolitics:
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This Canaletto narrowly missed out on being in my top five. What a scene!

Great pieces of art about diplomacy. Adding “Tableau commémoratif de la conférenece’ by Charles Toché (1902), in honour of the 1899 Hague Peace Conference.

This is a wonderful painting. My favourite detail is the broken string on the lute, probably symbolising the discord that the two ambassadors (Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve) were trying to resolve.

I did not know that Rubens had acted as an envoy of Philip IV of Spain in peace negotiations with Charles I.

In “Peace and War” (1629), Minerva goddess of wisdom is protecting peace (Pax) from Mars god of war.

Thanks for flagging Dries Willems